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The Clash of Cultures in Israel: A Problem for Education. Abraham Shumsky by Eldin Ricks is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
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The biblical allusion to the unborn twins, Jacob and Esau, struggling within their mother's womb is an appropriate allegory of the collision between the Orient and Occident in the State of Israel today. Before the establishment of the new State of Israel the Jewish immigrants were largely Ashkenazi (European) in character. Since the establishment of the State most of them have been Oriental Jews from the Middle East and from the Mediterranean region. (Shumsky groups Sephardic Jews with Orientals for the purpose of his study.) The result is a cultural clash of ominous proportions. The Ashkenazi Jews, Shumsky explains, came from almost every country in the Occident. There they differed from one another in their way of life. Yet before the formation of the new State of Israel in 1948 they had resolved their differences to a considerable extent. The reason for the rapid assimilation of the Western settlers of the new immigrant society is to be found in their previous Zionist orientation. The processes that caused the Western groups arriving before 1948 to merge into a nation were not sufficient, however, to bring about a union of Ashkenazi and Oriental groups. Oriental Jews had had lit
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- Author
- Eldin Ricks
- Published
- 1958
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)